20th Biennale of Sydney 

Visual Identity
Typography
Typeface Design
Signage
Editorial Design
Character Design

Animation & Motion
Advertising
Website



The Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s largest contemporary art festival, with more than 200 artworks on display by 83 artists from 35 countries with over 600,000 national and international visitors. Its aim is to broaden the reach, awareness and engagement with contemporary art with existing and new audiences.

The theme of the 20th Biennale of Sydney was titled 'The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed’. It speaks to our expectations of a future yet to materialise, and that today’s physical and virtual reality has already bypassed it.

The 3 month event takes place across Sydney in 7 key locations including a museum, a state gallery, a railway station, an island, and a multitude of in-between spaces where the virtual and the physical worlds overlap. Positioned as 'embassies of thought', these unique locations are individually curated around clusters of ideas, and the the identity connects the venues through iterations of the larger identity.

Each embassy has its own typographic language, colour palette and stylised delegate entities. These merge in a dialogue of cultural exchange between spaces, converging and assimilating each other’s characteristics.

Collaborators

Designers
— Olivia King
— Sam McGuinness
— Lauren Barber
Typographer
— Mathieu Reguer
Animation
— Ben Walker
Strategy Director
— Damian Borchok 

Recognition

D&AD 
— Graphite Pencil 
— Wood Pencil 
AGDA
— Pinnacle
— 4x Distinction
Best Awards
— Gold
— 2x Silver
— Bronze
Ny Type Director's Club
— Certificate of Excellence